Oregon contractor punished for wage violations

A Central Oregon contractor is being punished for failing to pay fair wages to his workers.

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries ruled that Hard Rock Concrete Inc. of Redmond must pay $13,600 in civil penalties for failing to pay fair wages. The company will also be ineligible for public works contracts for three years.

The company is one of 90-plus firms ineligible to work on public projects because of wage violations.

With the debarment, the company joins more than 90 other firms that BOLI has deemed ineligible to work on public projects because of wage violations.

Hard Rock Concrete Inc. “intentionally failed to pay seven contractors" nearly $9,000 while working as a subcontractor on a public works project in Jackson County for Hillside Elementary School, according to BOLI. Jackson County, in Southern Oregon, has one of the Oregon's highest unemployment rates.